Guess the gent?

You need another hint as to the natty gent’s identity? Here’s a photo of me (looking quizzical, which is quite appropriate) with his bronzed version (no, that’s not a euphemism for drunk.) It was taken in March:

I can absolutely see why you thought it was James Joyce. That was one of my first ideas.

But the “Tower of Belem” (located in the Belém district of Lisbon, Portugal)and “Alis Ubo” (the Phoenician name for Lisbon) — both found in the page of text angled under the photograph — and then the sign behind Laurie in the ‘hint’ photograph that says “A Brasileira” (one of the oldest and most famous cafés in the old quarter of Lisbon) didn’t fit Joyce.

So last night, rather than working on fine tuning a presentation for the library conference I am in the midst of, I started hunting down the natty gent Fernando. And as I am wont to do (which explains why I am a cataloger and NOT a reference librarian) I got seriously side-tracked. Did you know that in 1924 (April I think?) Buster Keaton released a movie entitled “Sherlock, Jr.”?